Iran has provided Russian army with the Yasir UAV a copy of U.S.-made ScanEagle 2610131

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Defence & Security News - Russia / Iran

Saturday,
October 26, 2013 11:37 AM

Iran
has provided Russian army with the Yasir UAV a copy of U.S.-made ScanEagle.

The Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps has provided the Russian army with a copy of
the US ScanEagle drone which was hunted by the IRGC in 2012 and a video
showing how Iran monitors the trans-regional countries' vessels and equipment
in the Persian Gulf.

Production line of the Iranian-made UAV Yasir, a copy of the US-made ScanEagle

"The
drone built by the IRGC is a symbol of the technical capabilities of the
Islamic Iran and today we presented a real model of it as a gift to (Russian
Air Force Commander) Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev and the Russian
people," Commander of Iran’s Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base
Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said after a meeting with Bondarev
in Tehran.

Esmayeeli
also gifted Bondarev a video of the IRGC's monitoring of the trans-regional
states' warships and equipment in the Persian Gulf to be given to Russian
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

On
December 4, Commander of the IRGC Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced
that his forces hunted a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) over the Persian
Gulf after the drone violated the country's airspace.

ScanEagle
is a small, low-cost, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle built by
Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing.

As
standard payload ScanEagle carries either an inertially stabilized electro-optical
or an infrared camera. The gimbaled camera allows the operator to easily
track both stationary and moving targets, providing real-time intelligence.

Capable
of flying above 16,000 feet, the UAV has also demonstrated the ability
to provide persistent low-altitude reconnaissance.

Iran
in February aired images of a drone production line which is producing
copies of the US ScanEagle UAVs.

The
domestically-manufactured drones have been put into service by the Iranian
Armed Forces.

In
December, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir
Ali Hajizadeh had said that the recent capture of the US ScanEagle by
the IRGC was nothing new as Iran had previously captured a similar drone
and even copied it for production.

"ScanEagle
had been in our possession before and we have even copied it in production,"
Hajizadeh underscored at the time.